Ch 15 Study Guide
Whiskey Ring
Bloodiest act of violence during Reconstruction
Accomplishments of southern governments run by Republicans during Reconstruction
During Reconstruction, southern state governments helped finance
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Southern Republicans during Reconstruction
Black officeholders during Reconstruction
Hiram Revels and Blanche Burce
Bradwell v. Illinois
Radical Reconstruction, southern African-Americans taking direct action to remedy long standing grievances
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone
1868 Democratic presidential ticket campaign motto
15 th Amendment
Andrew Jackson’s impeachment
“waving the bloody shirt”
Define “free labor” as meant in the section on the free labor system
Freedman’s Bureau
Central elements in the lives of post-emancipation blacks in the 20 years following the end of the Civil War
2 black church denominations with the largest following after the Civil War
13 th Amendment
14 th Amendment
“forty acres and a mule”
Causes of the decline of Reconsturction
What was being reconstructed in Reconstruction?
Central thrust of the Reconstruction Amendments
Bargain of 1877
Major effects of Reconstruction upon southern society
Election of 1876
Person who claimed in the 1870s to have converted the white South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern and black control
Widespread activity among newly emancipated blacks
Leaders of the Radical Republicans
1875, Adelbert Ames, Pres. Grant, white rifle clubs, Republicans
US Supreme Court, Slaughterhouse Cases
Prostrate State
Liberal Republican movement
Enforcements Acts of 1870 and 1871
Reconstruction, black church function
Howard University
Effects of Civil War on planter families
Northern vision of the Reconstruction era southern economy
Nations where slavery was replaced by indentured servitude
Emancipation’s effects on the structure of the black family
Reconstruction Act of March 1867

Definition of feminists regarding “the destruction of slavery led feminists to search for ways to make the promise of free labor real for women”
Two maps of the Barrow Plantation demonstrate
Black Codes
President Andrew Johnson’s view for role of African-Americans during Reconstruction
Gen. Sherman’s Special Field Order 15
Beliefs of Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction Era
Black response to the ending of the Civil War and coming of freedom
Black Americans who refused to sign labor contracts to work for whites during Reconstruction
Sharecropping
Pres. Johnson’s orders for nearly all land in federal hands in the summer of 1865
Andrew Johnson after Lincoln’s assassination
Conditions for white and black farmers in the South after the Civil War
Pres. Johnson’s reaction to the passage of the Civil rights Bill of 1866
In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting what
Most ambitious but least successful of the Radical Republicans’ aims
Radical Republicans
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
Characteristics of Thaddeus Stevens
Characteristics of Andrew Johnson
Southern cities under Reconstruction
Crop-lien system
Petition of Committee in Behalf of Freedmen to Andrew Johnson 1865